Why People Should Get Engaged More Often​Employees, stakeholders, community groups and citizen engagement are key to your success. Poor engagement is cited as one of the most common reasons for low staff morale, poor buy-in in change management and public outcry in government.​​20 Risks of Poor Stakeholder Engagement

Divides people

Erodes trust

Disempowers groups

Loses clients

Reduce support

Reduce capacity

Reduce productivity

Reduces profit

Reduces progress

Reduces effectiveness

Reduces efficiency

Reduces sustainability

Increases risk

Increases effort

Increases disconnection

Increases conflict

Increases negotiations

Increases grievances

Increases stress

Increases resistance

We make your engagement goals easier to achieve and get deeper impact and mitigate the disengagement risks. ​Let us teach you the most effective methods, design and skills to engage people for better outcomes. Don’t risk the chance of poor engagement. Engage us for a free confidential consultation. Review our program options.

“Ladies, Get Ready for Success at Networking” We want to see more women succeed in leadership and management, and we believe more women need to be in these roles. The key is having great networking skills. We know you can overcome any barrier.We have designed a new program to be a “Networking Experience” whereby women practise and gain greater self-confidence, skills, overcome obstacles to networking and build a new network just by attending.We ensure all women come away feeling inspired, empowered and commit to action. Women will also come away with an outline of their:

Networking goals

Networking plan

Current and future state map of their networks

Network strengths assessment

Networking barriers assessment

Personal branding statement, vision and values, and

New networking leads

A network meeting set up

Shopping bag full of networking tips, tools, techniques and confidence

The program is facilitated in-house and later in 2015 as a public program. be consistent to your personal or organisational strategies, priorities and values. Our program is led by an award winning Facilitator, appropriate for all women from entry career level to senior executive level.

For every new program we will give away a portion of the program proceeds to fund the education of young women from disadvantaged backgrounds. Be part of the gift of networking, grow your impact, be significant.

For those who don't have a professional facilitator running short, sharp, productive meetings here are some tips to stop the waste. Heads up... speak up,change company meetings. Only have them on certain days. Example, Tuesday and Thursday, every other day is a productive day. Then start "no email" Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Be more productive. Then, when you get the hang of it, introduce a one day a week company meeting policy. The rest of the week is for more meaningful and valuable work. Your colleagues will love you for it. You know they will.My email tips, only read email morning and afternoon if you must, turn it off in between. If it’s urgent tellpeople in your auto responder or signature block that your busy doing something very important and that email has taken a lower priority. Give them an alternative to call you at certain times. Let go of ego, you don't need to know everything. Make people accountable and stop them passing the buck. Stopworkplace theft.

My Tips for running meetings that don't waste time.

Dialogue: What messages need to be heard by staff that will focus their inputs into the company strategy?Decisions: What decisions need to be made at the meeting?Do: Who is responsible for the actions resulting from the meetingDone: Confirm what was discussed and agreed to and when it will be done.Defer: Defer any side discussions off track dialogue for another time

Enjoy the rest of the day! Be productive. Call us, we are always willing to help.

Want to make enemies? Try and change something. Culture trumps change and strategy every time. Here are 8 questions to assess how effective your leaders are in aligning culture and change. If you have great examples of building effective an organisational culture and facilitating change, please share it, everyone benefits. Better ideas, Better culture, Better outcomes.

Facilitating the difference is your experience and outcome with Professional Facilitators Australia.

“People only want follow those who can see beyond today’s problems and visualize a brighter tomorrow - Leaders have to paint a compelling picture of the future for people to want to align with the vision, people commit to causes, not plans, Vicky Ngo-roberti.

Our "Empowering Choice" Program Builds ResilienceThis insightful program inspires new workplace perspectives to unleash choices in how we deal with change. Many workplaces struggle with implementing change correctly - impacting on their bottom line, staff morale and customer experience. Research repeatedly tells us attempts to change often fail due to poor planning and most of all - poor change management.

Our company provides both consultancy and facilitation to help organisation and workplace change programs. Be the change or be changed. Call us to find out more.

Once upon a time there was workplace with a Cinderella and Prince Charming and another kingdom with Snow White, the Seven Dwarfs and an Evil Witch. The story goes on. All sound familiar? How many workplaces tell Fairy Tale Stories each day? We help organisations, teams, boards and business uncover the truth, deal with uncertainty and focus people on the real story. The best way to deal with change, is tell the real story, not the made up one. Tell it with real characters, facilitate character dialogue, people love to see themselves in the story. If you don’t they make up another version of it with more drama, more villains, more plots and more twists. Facilitating tough talks and challenging conversations is what we do best. Where not the knight in shining armor…however we do get the real story out so everyone can get back to business.

We are helping give some life to those who are losing theirs. We are supporting Karuna Hospice,Brisbane, Qld . Come or donate money generously if you can. Palliative care is not cheap and neither is life.

Help those carers and volunteers and care for those people dying young and old, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, wives and husbands.

Death comes to all of us, the one thing for certain is we don't know when.

This NFP organisation depends on gov't funding, community kindness to provide a world class hospice service.

Be kind to your community! We need it.

Art and Craft Market Day August 2, 2014. Visit Karunaand help them if you can.

The following information is sourced from the PROSCI Best Practices in Change Management – 2014 Edition As facilitators we are called in to resolve and help transform group dynamics when they’re at the pointy end of change or project management. It’s a crisis, going to be a crisis, it’s a program rescue, or low morale, another restructure, realignment or a service autopsy.